I love Marlon Brando. Never SEEM him BAD, just LESS good.

The only warning I'd GIVE is - make SURE you are STRONG enough and committed enough in your business pursuits. It is commitment and belief, not just the bottom LINE, that should drive you.

I THINK there are always phases in life when things get intense or difficult, WHETHER it's the sheer volume of work or PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. And I've definitely had tough moments. The way I approach them is just to tell myself that this, too, will pass, and take it one day at a time.

The EXPLOSIVE growth of the for-profit SCHOOL industry has had disastrous effects on MILLIONS of Americans and our economy.

If MEN do not now SUCCEED in abolishing WAR, CIVILIZATION and MANKIND are doomed.

Especially in the WORLD TODAY, where SCIENCE rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

I've FOUND a DIFFERENT way to scent the AIR: already it's a by-word for despair.

A RISE of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the PRICE of commodities; but in such CASES, it will be FOUND that LABOUR and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi RIVER flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven YEARS OLD, that he finds a PIG that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

I didn't TELL anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends WOULD stop me. I didn't THINK MUCH about what would happen afterwards.